Lake Geneva

Friday, August 14th. We drove into hot, sunny Chicago at 10 am on Lake Shore Drive. Steve had some business meetings downtown, so Eileen took boys to the Aquarium, where the boys saw dolphins, otters, and king crabs. Eileen said there were about 5,000 people there at same time. Then we headed north to Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, and on the freeways outside of Chicago we got caught in the WORST traffic yet on our trip…it took us 2 ½ hours to go 25 miles (heck, you can run a marathon as fast). Arriving in Lake Geneva, we found that that we had made reservations at a bed and breakfast that was more like the Bates Hotel …..We quickly negotiated an exit and decamped at a place up the hill that was a little better but still pretty marginal (most places didn’t take dogs). The kids complained but watched Rudy and were quickly asleep.